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Modify
reduction but also other kinds of alteration including enlargement, Western India Theatres Ltd. v. Municipal Corporation of the City of Poona, AIR 1959 SC 586 (589): (1959) Supp 2 SCR 71. [Bombay Municipal Boronghs Act, 1925, s. … Modify, 'Modify' connoted not merely reduction but also other kinds of alteration including enlargement, Western India Theatres Ltd. v. Municipal Corporation
ground
a premise, reason, or collection of data upon which something (as a legal action or argument) relies for validity [sued the city on the that the city…had wrongfully released…records "City of Lawton v. Moore, 868 P.2d 690 … ground 1 : the foundation or basis on which knowledge, belief, or conviction rests : a premise, reason, or collection of data upon which something (as a legal action or argument)
Repeal
of the courts is against implied repeal. See West Ham v. Fourth City Mutual Building Society, (1892) 1 QB 654, and other cases cited in … another is either express or implied, the rule being that a later Act repeals a former one if contradictory thereto, Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant. By s. 11 of the Inter-pretation Act, 1889, re-enacting s. 5 of … contrarias abrogant. By s. 11 of the Inter-pretation Act, 1889, re-enacting s. 5 of Lord Brougham's Act (13 Vict. c. 21), where an Act passed after 1850 repeals a repealing enactment, it does not revive any enactment
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Lands and buildings
nature of a house built where it is to stand. Includes the site of the building as its component part. A somewhat similar point arose for considera-tion in Corporation of the City of Victoria v. Bishop of
Way
the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our … (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway … Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers. 1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel
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